Table of Contents

Introduction31What Was Socialism, and Why Did It Fall?192The "Etatization" of Time in Ceausescu's Romania393From Parent-State to Family Patriarchs: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Eastern Europe614Nationalism and National Sentiment in Postsocialist Romania835Civil Society or Nation? "Europe" in the Symbolism of Postsocialist Politics1046The Elasticity of Land: Problems of Property Restitution in Transylvania1337Faith, Hope, and Caritas in the Land of the Pyramids, Romania, 1990-19941688A Transition from Socialism to Feudalism? Thoughts on the Postsocialist State204Afterword229Notes235Index289

About the Author

Katherine Verdery is Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. Among her books are Transylvanian Villagers and National Ideology under Socialism.

Reviews

"Verdery starts always with real people's thoughts and experiences, putting her inquiries on a solid footing that both statistics-heavy economic reports and arid efforts at political theorizing conspicuously lack. This solidity is a boon to those who want to understand how formerly existing socialism came to be what it was--and a warning to those who traffic in simple models of how it is being surpassed."--Joel Robbins, In These Times